Sure it will. All we need to do is park our planet next to another planet that is more attractive and easier to steal. Hmmm... sounds like a car analogy gone wrong.
This is the real problem. The believers will go right on believing no matter what the conclusion is.
Truer words were never spoken. The results of the study can never be 'mobile phones cause cancer'. If there is any correlation it will be something like 'heavy use of a mobile phone increases your chance of brain cancer by x%' where x is likely to be quite small or we'd have noticed it by now, and certainly small enough that it won't have much meaning to anyone and they'll keep on doing the same thing as they always have.
What we know right now is that talking on the phone while driving reduces your concentration by some amount (depending on a whole load of factors including the person) and increases your chances of an accident by some amount. It doesn't seem to stop anyone from doing it though. Neither does the threat of punishment. The numbers are small enough that people can rationalise them down to zero through the various cognitive biases that inhabit the human mind. In particular "it will never happen to me".
(My bet is that phone related distractions cause more accidents and deaths than phone radiation will ever cause.)
On the other hand, what if someone is given six weeks to live and is given this medication because the FDA decides that a dying person is a good test case, and it cures the cancer but it turns out that one of the side effects is that your legs fall off after 6 months.
Most would argue that it's better to have no legs than no life, but i'm sure that the patient could find a court who will take the case to sue someone over it.
A hint for you. If you worry about how your moderation is going to affect someone's karma then you are doing it wrong. If the post is funny, mod it funny. If it's insightful, mod it insightful, etc. Other peoples karma is not your problem.
No shit. I've never seen a person with an actual handicap or disability using those scooters
It may be hard to see the genuinely disadvantaged ones behind the fat ones where you live they do exist. People with arthritis and other bone disorders are the main ones. MS is another cause that can put people in those. Sure, they can walk in a lot of cases but it hurts to do so, and makes the problem worse.
Myself, I've never seen a grossly overweight person on a motor scooter where I live.
I blame Microsoft for making complex problems appear simple. They put a simple and limited layer over the top of a complex background to hide it and suddenly everyone thinks they can be a sysadmin without having a clue about how it works underneath, and without that clue the user gets it wrong once they try and do anything vaguely complicated.
Firewalls are the the same, only more so. You _need_ to understand what is happening to the packets as they move through your networks if you want to admin anything beyond a simple 'internet on one side, intranet on the other, nat in between' firewall. A point and click interface might be fine for home use (although it almost certainly won't have sufficient egress filtering) but for something with more than a single internal network requiring complex separation rules between them you need to know what you are doing.
So to answer the OP, the future of firewalls is network admins understanding their jobs, same as it's always been. Text representation of firewall rules with sufficient comments is just fine.
You mean that during these 8 years you had sex 3 times before you were fixed and 3 times after?
I suspect that the people who joke about the lack of sex after marriage are the people who screwed up somewhere along the way and aren't getting any anymore. Sure, you can't keep up the pace of when you just met, especially with jobs, kids, etc, but if it's stopped completely then you messed up (with apologies to those with medical conditions and the like that actually do mess things up on your behalf)
if you're in the intersection and it's red... you're doing it wrong.
Or to put it more realistically, if you're in the intersection and it's red, someone is doing it wrong. An errant pedestrian or someone making a right hand turn in front of you (left hand turn for you yanks) because they think they can make it are reasons why you might get stuck in an intersection without you having done anything wrong.
A yellow light with a shorter duration than it is supposed to have is another, which is the topic under discussion here.
It's curious though, i only know of a few people who've ever been ticketed by a red light camera or a police officer who happened to be watching, but each of those has been ticketed more than once... that says more to me about the person than of a general ability for a law to be obeyed.
BUB might be a better nickname. Big Unexploded Battery.
I'm sure it's safely enclosed and all the safety aspects have been taken into account, but it will be an impressive boom when it does go off, assuming the size of the boom goes up proportionally with the size of the battery (I had a tiny watch battery blow my little remote control car apart...)
BS. Aparentely you never use cruise control in you life.
If the speed on the cruise control is not reset it will try to accelerate to the selected speed as soon as you enable it. If you vehicle is in full stop and you enable a cruise control, it may not burn rubber, but it will accelerate as fast as it can to get to the set speed.
It sounds like you've only ever used broken cruise control implementations. All the cars I've ever driven with cruise control (lots - i was using hired cars twice a week for about a year) will not engage cruise control unless you are doing at least 40kph. I typically use cruise control all the time (except in my current car where I use the speed limiter instead) so I was well aware of what speed they engage at.
My only disappointment was that I didn't get a witty response when I typed "What the fuck does that mean?" in response to "PC LOAD LETTER". Oh well, 99/100 aint bad!
Condoms take away a large amount of the pleasure of sex.
So does a good case of <insert STD here>, which can also remove a bunch of other pleasures in life, temporarily or permanently (gonorrhea is associated with infertility, and a bunch of other STD's hurt from what i've heard)
Seriously, if you are going to have unprotected sex with someone you don't know, just remember that you are going to have sex with someone who isn't adverse to having unprotected sex with someone they don't know. Proceed cautiously.
I don't know much about the subject, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but in that scenario, if the data for a file becomes corrupted on the hard drive, say a critical system file, doesn't that mean that all vm's using it are pooched?
Yes, but not because of deduplication. If you had one sector go bad then yes, you could affect many more vm's if you you were using data deduplication than if you weren't, but in my experience, data corruption is seldom just a '1 sector' thing, and once you detect it you should restore anything that uses that disk from a backup that probably was taken before the corruption started (which is tricky... how do you know when that was?)
Bitrot is one of the nastiest failure modes around.
That's the thing that would really bug me about suddenly coming in to a heap of money I didn't really earn (i'm not saying this guy didn't earn the million, but that appears to be his opinion). You'd find out more about the people around you than you probably ever wanted to know.
And i'm sure there are exceptions, but giving people lots of money that they don't really feel that they've earned probably isn't going to make them happy in the long run.
Maybe God created Neanderthal Man in His image, and we went and wiped them all out. That would explain why he's pissed off all the time with all the wrath and stuff.
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Sure it will. All we need to do is park our planet next to another planet that is more attractive and easier to steal. Hmmm... sounds like a car analogy gone wrong.
If that is true heavy cellphone use could actually help reduce your chances of getting cancer ;).
Now _you_ should be a researcher! :)
This is the real problem. The believers will go right on believing no matter what the conclusion is.
Truer words were never spoken. The results of the study can never be 'mobile phones cause cancer'. If there is any correlation it will be something like 'heavy use of a mobile phone increases your chance of brain cancer by x%' where x is likely to be quite small or we'd have noticed it by now, and certainly small enough that it won't have much meaning to anyone and they'll keep on doing the same thing as they always have.
What we know right now is that talking on the phone while driving reduces your concentration by some amount (depending on a whole load of factors including the person) and increases your chances of an accident by some amount. It doesn't seem to stop anyone from doing it though. Neither does the threat of punishment. The numbers are small enough that people can rationalise them down to zero through the various cognitive biases that inhabit the human mind. In particular "it will never happen to me".
(My bet is that phone related distractions cause more accidents and deaths than phone radiation will ever cause.)
You're dying. Six weeks to live.
What do you care of side effects?
On the other hand, what if someone is given six weeks to live and is given this medication because the FDA decides that a dying person is a good test case, and it cures the cancer but it turns out that one of the side effects is that your legs fall off after 6 months.
Most would argue that it's better to have no legs than no life, but i'm sure that the patient could find a court who will take the case to sue someone over it.
A hint for you. If you worry about how your moderation is going to affect someone's karma then you are doing it wrong. If the post is funny, mod it funny. If it's insightful, mod it insightful, etc. Other peoples karma is not your problem.
Pretty bold statement... do you have a citation?
I have one. Right here
No shit. I've never seen a person with an actual handicap or disability using those scooters
It may be hard to see the genuinely disadvantaged ones behind the fat ones where you live they do exist. People with arthritis and other bone disorders are the main ones. MS is another cause that can put people in those. Sure, they can walk in a lot of cases but it hurts to do so, and makes the problem worse.
Myself, I've never seen a grossly overweight person on a motor scooter where I live.
I blame Microsoft for making complex problems appear simple. They put a simple and limited layer over the top of a complex background to hide it and suddenly everyone thinks they can be a sysadmin without having a clue about how it works underneath, and without that clue the user gets it wrong once they try and do anything vaguely complicated.
Firewalls are the the same, only more so. You _need_ to understand what is happening to the packets as they move through your networks if you want to admin anything beyond a simple 'internet on one side, intranet on the other, nat in between' firewall. A point and click interface might be fine for home use (although it almost certainly won't have sufficient egress filtering) but for something with more than a single internal network requiring complex separation rules between them you need to know what you are doing.
So to answer the OP, the future of firewalls is network admins understanding their jobs, same as it's always been. Text representation of firewall rules with sufficient comments is just fine.
No C? What a load of silly bunts.
Hehehe... i'm still not looking at it though :p
I'd never even heard of the 'Kin Phone' until just now... is Slashdot being assimilated into the Microsoft marketing machine?
You mean that during these 8 years you had sex 3 times before you were fixed and 3 times after?
I suspect that the people who joke about the lack of sex after marriage are the people who screwed up somewhere along the way and aren't getting any anymore. Sure, you can't keep up the pace of when you just met, especially with jobs, kids, etc, but if it's stopped completely then you messed up (with apologies to those with medical conditions and the like that actually do mess things up on your behalf)
You obviously didn't read the footnote, that says "but really, if that happens then you're doing it wrong".
if you're in the intersection and it's red... you're doing it wrong.
Or to put it more realistically, if you're in the intersection and it's red, someone is doing it wrong. An errant pedestrian or someone making a right hand turn in front of you (left hand turn for you yanks) because they think they can make it are reasons why you might get stuck in an intersection without you having done anything wrong.
A yellow light with a shorter duration than it is supposed to have is another, which is the topic under discussion here.
It's curious though, i only know of a few people who've ever been ticketed by a red light camera or a police officer who happened to be watching, but each of those has been ticketed more than once... that says more to me about the person than of a general ability for a law to be obeyed.
Nobody worries about table salt (Sodium Chloride) exploding...
I do. All the time.
BUB might be a better nickname. Big Unexploded Battery.
I'm sure it's safely enclosed and all the safety aspects have been taken into account, but it will be an impressive boom when it does go off, assuming the size of the boom goes up proportionally with the size of the battery (I had a tiny watch battery blow my little remote control car apart...)
BS. Aparentely you never use cruise control in you life.
If the speed on the cruise control is not reset it will try to accelerate to the selected speed as soon as you enable it. If you vehicle is in full stop and you enable a cruise control, it may not burn rubber, but it will accelerate as fast as it can to get to the set speed.
It sounds like you've only ever used broken cruise control implementations. All the cars I've ever driven with cruise control (lots - i was using hired cars twice a week for about a year) will not engage cruise control unless you are doing at least 40kph. I typically use cruise control all the time (except in my current car where I use the speed limiter instead) so I was well aware of what speed they engage at.
My only disappointment was that I didn't get a witty response when I typed "What the fuck does that mean?" in response to "PC LOAD LETTER". Oh well, 99/100 aint bad!
Condoms take away a large amount of the pleasure of sex.
So does a good case of <insert STD here>, which can also remove a bunch of other pleasures in life, temporarily or permanently (gonorrhea is associated with infertility, and a bunch of other STD's hurt from what i've heard)
Seriously, if you are going to have unprotected sex with someone you don't know, just remember that you are going to have sex with someone who isn't adverse to having unprotected sex with someone they don't know. Proceed cautiously.
Or alternatively, find someone the owner of the USB stick cares about and threaten to cut off that persons finger if the owner doesn't cooperate.
I don't know much about the subject, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but in that scenario, if the data for a file becomes corrupted on the hard drive, say a critical system file, doesn't that mean that all vm's using it are pooched?
Yes, but not because of deduplication. If you had one sector go bad then yes, you could affect many more vm's if you you were using data deduplication than if you weren't, but in my experience, data corruption is seldom just a '1 sector' thing, and once you detect it you should restore anything that uses that disk from a backup that probably was taken before the corruption started (which is tricky... how do you know when that was?)
Bitrot is one of the nastiest failure modes around.
That's the thing that would really bug me about suddenly coming in to a heap of money I didn't really earn (i'm not saying this guy didn't earn the million, but that appears to be his opinion). You'd find out more about the people around you than you probably ever wanted to know.
And i'm sure there are exceptions, but giving people lots of money that they don't really feel that they've earned probably isn't going to make them happy in the long run.
Maybe leave the guy alone like he wants?
If only he had the money to hire a decent bodyguard.
Maybe God created Neanderthal Man in His image, and we went and wiped them all out. That would explain why he's pissed off all the time with all the wrath and stuff.
Not much you can do with half a finger.
You have far too little imagination.